background: low birth weight (lbw) is one of the major determinants of neonatal survival as well as postnatal morbidity. objective: the main objective of the present study was to determine neonatal mortality rate (nmr) in lbw infants in yazd, iran. materials and methods: in a prospective-cohort study, all births in the maternity hospitals of yazd, iran in 2004 were evaluated and mortality rate ...

objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence, type, location, and risk factors of accidental fetal lacerations during caesarean delivery. material and methods: total deliveries, caesarean deliveries, and neonatal records for documented accidental fetal lacerations were reviewed retrospectively in four university hospital. thegestational age, the presenting part of the f...

oligohydramnios is frequently used to identify at risk fetuses. the purpose of this study was to assess adverse perinatal outcomes in oligohydramnios. subjects comprised pregnant women diagnosed either with (590) or without (597) oligohydramnios who delivered after hospital admittance from 2000 to 2010 . data, including the resuscitation of newborn, apgar score at 5 min, nicu admission, death i...

how to cite this article: chiabi a, nguefack s, mah e, nodem s, mbuagbaw l, mbonda e, tchokoteu pf, doh a. risk factors for birth asphyxia in an urban health facility in cameroon. iran j child neurol. 2013 summer; 7(3):46-54. objective the world health organization (who) estimates that 4 million children are born with asphyxia every year, of which 1 million die and an equal number survive with ...

conclusions not using iron supplementation did not cause of anemia in women with hb concentrations greater than 13.2 g/dl during pregnancy; thus, the systematic care and control of iron status markers without iron supplementation is recommended for these women. results there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in hb (p = 0/03) and ferritin (p = 0/04) levels at the ...

background prematurity is an issue related to increasing the neonatal morbidity and mortality and smoking pregnant women cause the risk of low birth weight and prematurity increase, compared to non-smoking ones. results of all 205 women, 43 (20.97%) women exposed to shs during pregnancy and 162 (79.02%) women did not. in shs exposure group, 11 infant (25.6%) and in non- shs exposure group, 17 i...

in this research a comparative study has been made between case and control groups. the cases were low birth weight newborns (under 2500 gr) and the controls were normal berth weighing 2500 gr or more at birth. four groups of birth weight were considered as follows: very low birth weight, low birth weight, moderately low birth weight and normal. the data were collected over a period of 8 months...

background: given the importance of birth weight and the effects of anthropometric indices and socioeconomic status on it, this study was conducted to assess birth weight and its related factors among infants born in the hospitals of ahwaz jondishapour university. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 269 newly born babies and their mothers in hospitals of ahwaz jondishapour un...